Into the Unknown
High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World's Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers
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Product details:
- Publisher University of New Mexico Press
- Date of Publication 15 September 2024
- ISBN 9780826366849
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 colour photos, 1 map 546
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Short description:
Veteran wilderness guide Michael P. Ghiglieri takes you into the unknown—among white-water rapids, crocodiles, hippos, gorillas, lions, and impossible waterfalls. His riveting memoir not only serves up true high adventure, it also presents the ecology, natural history, conservation, and exploration history of nine regions across the globe.
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"Veteran wilderness guide Michael P. Ghiglieri takes you into the unknown—among white-water rapids, crocodiles, hippos, gorillas, lions, and impossible waterfalls. His riveting memoir not only serves up true high adventure, it also presents the ecology, natural history, conservation (or the lack of it), and exploration history of nine far-flung wilderness regions across the globe.
Into the Unknown reveals what the natural world looks like through a professional's eyes during ""adventure"" travel, when things start sliding toward the edge. This insider memoir recounts ten sagas of extreme expeditions into Earth's most amazing wilderness regions to illustrate their realities, science, allure, history, risks to life and limb, and ultimate fates. Many of these regions have now vanished to ""progress."" Others are imperiled. Only a few are protected. But all are, or were, places where exotic beauty and danger are inseparable."
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface. What Could These Guides Be Thinking?
Chapter 1. The Stanislaus: Paradise Lost
Chapter 2. Kidnapped (and Derailed)
Chapter 3. Mission Impossible: The Vanishing Euphrates
Chapter 4. Kilombero-Rufiji: East Africa’s Biggest
Chapter 5. Gorilla Country
Chapter 6. The Omo: Back to the Stone Age
Chapter 7. 1983: High Water in the Great Unknown
Chapter 8. Over the Edge in New Guinea
Chapter 9. “Stardom” on the Alas, Sumatra
Chapter 10. Alsek: Ice Age Jackpot
Chapter 11. The Most Overpriced Oarboat
The Upshot
Index
About the Author
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